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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 9 April 1926, Page 4

In the Middleton yard, when it is completed and in working order, Christchurch will have a _ railway marshalling yard unique in _ Zealand in its method of handling rclling stock. The bulk of the sh , tmg there will ho done by . a gravitv method, which, besides being much more rapid than , with the prosent modo of shitting engine , much bumping about of tiucKs ana rough handling of live stock and damageable goods. Since the announcement was made that Mr M. Ji. Lyons, who unsuccessfully defended the petition lodged against his election to 1 aruament as member for Lyttelton, » coiled upon to meet a bill ot costs of £403 in connection with the hearing ot the petition by the Electoral Court, the opinion has been expressed by many that it would be unfair to expect Mr l.yom, to foot the 'bill- Very many also have expresi ed admiration for the excellent light put up by Air Lyons on behalf pi the Reform Party. It will be gratifying news to all Mr Lion’s well-wish-ers that they are to be given an opportunity to show, in a tangible manner, their appreciation of Mr Lyons’s efforts to win Lyttelton for Reform. Mr H. G. Linvingstone, the secretary of the Reform organisation in North Canterbury, when the matter of Air Lyons’s bill, of costs was mentioned to him by a lepresentative of “The Press” yesterday, said:—“Tho Reform, organisat'on is* going to' make an endeavour to raise s llficient money to meet tho bill of costs, and any subscriptions forwarded to the secretary of the organisation will be duly acknowledged:” Those who read about''the had times they are having in tlie Old Country should bo heartened to believe that things are not so bad as they are represented, judging by the, last report of tho Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, which is typical of many ojfclier institutions maintained by the , voluntary gifts of tho people. ' Tho report goes on to say that tho year was in one way almost unique in the history of their venerable' institution, in that, for tho first time for at least fifty years, the ordinary income has exceeded the ordinary expenditure, and instead of drawing upon the legacies to make up a deficiency, they lind actually a small surplus, and had been ablo to add the whole of their legacies to the accumulated capital. They had nugumented their capital by over £15,000, and yet they had treatod more patients than ever before. “It was a striking commentary,” said one of the speakers at tho annual meeting, ‘‘on the fact that the joculnr writers in the London Pi ess invariably cbose Aberdeen as the venue of their stories of abnormal stinginess.- Thoso stories of the ‘‘bang wont naxponco” tyno bad given their city almost a world-wide reputation, It might astonish those jesters to know that Aberdonians last year ‘hanged 1 1 ,840,000 'saxponces' to help to keep up their inflrn n-ry, so that tliev might justly choose the citizens of some other town ns tb*- heroes of their next a+nrvJK